Ulisses Salom

Sant Just Desvern, Barcelona, 1987.
He graduated in photography in the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya with a final Project on the Urban Landscape of several european cities.

He has inspite of his youth already obtained several awards such as the Marina Eurostars Award in 2016. He has also obtained a honour mention in the International Photography Awards 2015. As well as some other mentions:

2013 “Muestra de fotoperiodismo Clic’13 Jove”, in la Casa de la Generalitat of Perpignan, in the Festival International de photojournalisme Visa pour l’Image. (Visa Off)

The Artist's vision

“Barcelona and its metropolitan area are the beginning of my work, which looks at the urban landscape, and especially at the lines and contrasts between the touristic city and its former industrial borders. An inexhaustible scenario, rediscovered thousands of times, where geometry emerges as an essential photographic component. ” (Ulises Salom)

Ulisses Salom

Sant Just Desvern, Barcelona, 1987.
He graduated in photography in the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya with a final Project on the Urban Landscape of several european cities.

He has inspite of his youth already obtained several awards such as the Marina Eurostars Award in 2016. He has also obtained a honour mention in the International Photography Awards 2015. As well as some other mentions:

2013 “Muestra de fotoperiodismo Clic’13 Jove”, in la Casa de la Generalitat of Perpignan, in the Festival International de photojournalisme Visa pour l’Image. (Visa Off)

The Artist's vision

“Barcelona and its metropolitan area are the beginning of my work, which looks at the urban landscape, and especially at the lines and contrasts between the touristic city and its former industrial borders. An inexhaustible scenario, rediscovered thousands of times, where geometry emerges as an essential photographic component. ” (Ulises Salom)

Salom There are 21 products.

Spectacular image of the Barcelona’s coastline. We can see how the waves break in the beach. In the background, appear the towers Mapfre and Arts Hotel like emerging from the sea. Unmistakable icons of the city skyline. The culmination is the blue sky that starts to colour its clouds by the sunset light. Refreshing, dynamic and suggestive.

This happens during the sunset and we are at the beach where the river Besòs ends. At the end, we can clearly identify the well-known chimneys of the Barcelona’s skyline. The framing of the photo is suggestive. It mixes very well in the same shot the concept of the nature of the sea that touches the rocks, with the industry and the city.

This black and white image seems more an illustration of a vector than a photo. Salo has achieved to take to the extreme the relation between brightness and contrast. This famous telecommunication antenna, symbol of the Barcelona from the 92 Olympic Games, stands still in white over an absolute black sky. At the foot of the tower, two persons give a dose...

This is one of the most contemporary localizations in the Barcelona’s coastline. We are at the Forum Port and in front of the great photovoltaic plaque, that has become an indispensable piece of the skyline since a couple of years ago. The black and white treatment is exquisite. Despite of being a sunny day, we can appreciate the rest of a timid rain that...

We are in one of the narrow streets of the Gothic quarter of Barcelona. A man walks in the shadow towards the timid light of a lamp that partially illuminates the scene. The stone pavement shines and we can appreciate puddles and other interesting textures. The semi-darkness, the golden reflexes, the acting, …

In the moment of a sunset, the artist didn’t want to centre his camera in the most evident element that could be the sky or the sun. The centre is a metallic structure perfectly shaped in black over the colourful sky that plays as if a chromatic board. At the bottom, we can see the Besós chimneys, icon of Barcelona’s coastline.

In this image, Salom does a great backlight work again. The blue sky with white clouds is a colour tapestry. In this tapestry, capricious silhouettes are drawn formed by the winter trees’ branches, the buildings of the city and the main character of the scene: the statue of Cristopher Colombus at the beginning of Las Ramblas.

Black, blue and yellow, are the colours that the artist uses to surprise us with this image. The used technique and the obtained result transport us to a flat plastic beauty, simple and visually attractive. Originality and graphic present, at the same time.

These are the three chimneys of Besós, very common in the skyline of Barcelona, captured here in an unusual way. The artist captures the reflex made by a window wet by the rain. Very good use of the black and white.

This curious image is captured in the cover of the Encants Market. This surprising cover is made of mirrors and metallic boards, where everything that is going on under it is reflected. The artist has waited patiently to collocate his lens towards a person on a bicycle, which brings humanity and life to the image.

The metallic grid of wires, walkways, traffic lights, draw their black silhouettes over a clean sky. The image is in black and white and the degrading sky is converted into a soft grey. It contrasts with the aggressive urban elements. The artist gains certain dynamism when inclining his camera and changes the original vertical and horizontal lines by new...